His breakthrough movie Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi (1943) was such a huge success in Finland that
also Hollywood got interested in him. The MGM company contacted Wager's
agent and asked for a copy of the film. This was sent, but the ship
carrying the film reels was torpedoed on the Atlantic and Wager
eventually stayed in Finland.
Wrote his memoirs, "Hävyttömän hieno elämä" (A Shamelessly Fine Life),
in 2000.
His father was singer and painter Lars Wager, and mother was reporter
Elsa Killengreen. He was first child of Wager and Killengreen.
Studied in Lycée Montaignessa, Paris. After that he went to school back
in Helsinki, and studied theater in Oslo.
Work in National Theather of Finland between 1975-1989.